As the world observes the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, hosts Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff speak with author and former diplomat Peter Dale Scott. Scott has written extensively about modern US history, on topics from JFK and the CIA to drug smuggling and the September 11 attacks. In this interview, Scott applies his idea of "deep politics" to the JFK assassination and other landmark events in US history.

In this Special Program for Veteran's Day Colonel Ann Wright speaks on "Whistle Blowers in the Age of the Surveillance State," October, 2013 produced by WRZD and sponsored by Chicago Area Peace Action Colonel Wright spent 13 years on active duty with the U.S. Army before beginning a distinguished 16 year career with the U.S. Foreign service. In 2003, she resigned her diplomatic post in protest on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, one of only three State Department officials to have done so. She has since become a campaigner for peace and justice, opposing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and raising awareness of sexual assaults with in the U.S. armed forces. She has traveled on the Japanese Peace boat and with the flotilla to break the siege of Gaza.

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Tami Dean and Hossein Rojhantalab about their recent trip to Iran. They spent seven months traveling around Hossein’s country of origin—Iran. They set out to introduce Tami to Hossein’s family and friends back home, and then cover as much territory as possible to get a wide look at a country that Americans know little about.

Bayard Rustin is perhaps one of the most understated leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He helped with the formation of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942, which was conceived as a pacifist organization based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and modeled after Mahatma Ghandi’s non-violent resistance against British rule in India. Bayard Rustin would devote his life to the non violent pursuit of equal rights for all.

10 am - Air Cascadia features folk troubadour and troublemaker David Rovics

10:15 am - 11:30 am - Thomas Linzey, founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which works to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature. He spoke at the Ballot Initiative Campaign Kickoff Event to Ban Growing of GMOs in Multnomah County on September at the 21st at the Immaculate Heart Church in Portland.

11:30 - 12 - LIVE IN STUDIO: Arun Gupta - Independent journalist and regular contributor to AlterNet, Truthout and the Guardian, Gupta is a co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent.

THE POLITICS OF AUSTERITY
Governments around the world have characterized spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. They have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis.
But the global turn to austerity, or the policy of reducing domestic wages and prices to restore competitiveness and balance the budget, is harmful to both governments and individuals. In this special program we hear from a variety of scholars about the dangers of austerity and the need to expand growth and opportunity with stimulus programs.

What is the right human population? The current seven billion? More? Less? Zero? Alan Weisman is the author of the best-selling The World Without Us, an examination of what would happen to the natural and built environments if people suddenly disappeared. Now, in his new book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope For A Future On Earth?, he explains why population has grown so fast after growing slowly for thousands of years, then dares to consider the possibility that fewer humans might make for a better world, and covers recent developments in population control.

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On the Thursday following Barack Obama's election as president, KBOO hosts Linda Olson-Osterlund and S.W. Conser discuss the future of civil liberties and foreign relations with guests Jay Stanley of the American Civil Liberties Union; Chris Toensing, Executive Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project; and Harpers Magazine Editor John R. MacArthur.